Along with the objective, medical and ethical problems posed by euthanasia and assisted suicide, no less controversial are, those that arise in relation to language engineering [the semantic manipulation of the terminology] used around them. In our view, however, two groups should be distinguished in

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Unquestionable medical risks and limited benefits Over the last decade, the number of women using “Social Freezing” (cryopreserving their eggs for social, non-medical reasons when they are young to use them at a later date) has increased dramatically (read HERE). According to the Society for

On 15 November last year, an article was published in the prestigious journal Science, which assessed the development of monkey embryos after their implantation in

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The Catholic University of Valencia was founded on 8th of December 2003, the “youngest” of the Spanish Catholic universities. On 20th September 2006, the Institute of Life Sciences was constituted within the University itself, and within it, the Bioethics Observatory.

The Observatory has a website in Spanish that was created on Decembre 2007 (see HERE), and we are now starting a new chapter with our website in English, given the importance of this language in the field of bioethical research.

Special Reports includes extensive reference material on these topics, which is constantly updated as new information becomes available. It is also a dynamic means of communication with our readers to reflect on these issues.

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